Euro Patches

A year ago (give or take) I had an idea for a new style of patches.  I had been seeing these Euro Stickers on cars all over the place, and thought it would be fun to do patches in that style — but for towns in H.P. Lovecraft‘s fictional Massachusetts.  I did up a design for Arkham, and ran some tests, and just wasn’t quite happy with it.  I didn’t have any actual fonts at that point, and was trying to digitize all these letters by hand — including the small ones at the top and bottom, and it just wasn’t coming out cleanly.  So, I set it aside.

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Top 10 Countdown!

Doctor Who Awareness RibbonOn behalf of my wife, who is busy with that “day job” thing, Happy New Year!

As part of our annual year-end wrap-up, we at the Storied Threads household are gathering together all our financial records to take to our awesome accountant. As part of this process, and to help her plan for 2012, I sifted through Veronica’s Etsy sales records for 2011 to see what her hottest-selling patches were.

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